GENERATION Y DON’T YOU LOVE ME?

A team of five grumpy old men posing as university psychologists have released the results of a study which found that today’s kids are far more self-centered than previous generations. The official-sounding “Narcissistic Personality Inventory” survey was given to over 16,000 students between the years 1982 and 2006, and asked students to agree or disagree with statements such as “I think I am a special person” and “If I ruled the world, it would be a better place.” (Wouldn’t it?) The study found that almost two-thirds of today’s kids display a higher level of narcissism than the 1982 average. Or maybe the new generation is just better at messing with stupid surveys given to them by psychologists. Last August another youth-bashing study of 300 business owners in Australia revealed that today’s bosses feel that the new generation of workers are “demanding, impatient and spoiled, with poor spelling, poor grammar, poor communication skills and an inability to understand what constitutes appropriate corporate behaviour.” (The Atlantic)